India’s T20 WC Team: MS Dhoni to mentor Virat Kohli’s Team India in UAE for ICC T20 World Cup
MS Dhoni to mentor Virat Kohli’s Team India in UAE for ICC T20 World Cup – Former India captain MS Dhoni will be Team India’s mentor for the ICC T20 World Cup in UAE. The Board of Control for Cricket in India announced the team on Wednesday. MS Dhoni retired from international cricket in 2020.
Dhoni has been captaining the IPL team Chennai Super Kings since 2008 and was the captain of the Indian cricket team which won the 2007 T20 World Cup.
Jay Shah said-
Spoke to Dhoni when I was in Dubai. Agreed to be a mentor for T20 World Cup only. Captain, vice-captain and the head coach were consulted and which is why Dhoni is on board.
The Indian national selectors on Wednesday picked the squad for the T20 World Cup to be hosted in UAE and Oman. In a surprise move, R Ashwin has been included in the team which will begin its campaign in the showpiece event against arch-rivals Pakistan. He had last played a T20I against West Indies in July 2017. Yuzvendra Chahal misses out. While the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has the hosting rights, the tournament has been moved out of the country with an eye on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Team India’s squad for T20 World Cup
Virat Kohli (c), Rohit Sharma (vc), KL Rahul, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, R Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rahul Chahar, Varun, Mohammed Shami, Axar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja, Ishan Kishan.
Stand-byes: Shreyas Iyer, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur.
